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Somali parliament completes second reading on banking and judicial matters

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The Somali Parliament has completed the second reading of amendments to the Central Bank Law and judicial cooperation agreements with Turkey. The relevant committees must prepare their reports before the third reading, House of the People Speaker Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama announced.

The House of the People of the Somali Parliament has completed the second reading of amendments to the Central Bank Law and judicial cooperation agreements between Somalia and Turkey, the Somali Parliament announced. The debate concerns, in particular, Law No. 130 on the Central Bank, adopted on 22 April 2012 and drafted by the Ministry of Finance.

The sitting was the 22nd meeting of the eighth parliamentary session. It was chaired by Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama, Speaker of the House of the People, and opened in the presence of 141 parliamentarians, according to the Somali Parliament.

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